Example sentences of "by a [noun prp] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arithmetic was supported by a BBC poll which calculated 36 Tory MPs would either abstain or vote against the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | William Somerville was purchased by a US firm which had previously bought Colter Guardbridge . |
| 3 | It was interesting to read about the Washington write-offs — WF555 was captained by a F/O Connolly who was very much an extrovert ( with an extensive repertoire of bawdy songs ) . |
| 4 | The local ice-cream shop is run by a Norwich man who informed all who would listen that he sold more types of ice-cream than Sainsbury 's . |
| 5 | Such an approach is validated by a UK study which also showed that improvement is most likely if psychopathology is recognised and the pain is not constant . |
| 6 | Ulster fielded four new caps , but were not overawed by a Saltire side which included six internationalists . |
| 7 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
| 8 | When Mr. Anderson left Glasgow in 1824 to go to Liverpool to take the post of Headmaster at the new institution there , a short time elapsed without any Sunday Meeting until it was revived by a J. Ferguson who was an assistant teacher at the Glasgow Institution . |
| 9 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 10 | The photographs also indicated that the original had two trains ( going and striking ) and indeed there were some interesting notes prepared by a Dr Byrom who was an enthusiastic amateur clock repairer , and who overhauled the clock in 1970 , but these were couched in very general terms . |
| 11 | During the 1960 campaign , the Kennedy entourage dodged the opposition 's charges about the disease , which was diagnosed two decades earlier by a London doctor who commented , ‘ He has n't got a year to live . ’ |
| 12 | The following practical checklist on starting a co-operative , produced by a London college which has developed a local scheme ( for pre-licentiate training in particular ) , indicates a range of practical factors that they considered necessary to take into account : |
| 13 | It appears to be a copy of what Burton called ‘ the oldest and best ’ of the paintings , which is a smaller work of c.1800 ( 24 by 18 inches ) and was painted by a Mr. Everard who was buried in St. George 's Church around 1835 . |
| 14 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 15 | Barrister Deborah Gould , of Oxton , Wirral , was 8 months pregnant when she was hit by a Nissan Micra which swerved into her path as she was out driving her Ford Escort last month . |
| 16 | Then in Hill House , just outside the mill , where Mr Besley now lives , there was a grocer 's shop kept by a Mr Flick who was also the village carrier , taking goods to and from Ipswich . |
| 17 | Some species are named after their collectors , so if our new species of Tyrannosaurus were collected by a Mr Jones it might eventually be christened Tyrannosaurus jonesi . |
| 18 | Around the turn of the century , the mill was bought by a Mr Herbert who , in turn , let it to Henry Boulting who ran the adjacent farm . |
| 19 | There was a little shop there run by a Mr Nixon who would stay open all hours for the hired lads and lassies . |
| 20 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 21 | From more recent times comes the will left by a Yorkshire vicar who viewed his daughter 's adherence to contemporary fashion with mounting horror . |
| 22 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 23 | The company was sued by a Nottingham couple who had specifically checked to make sure that smoking would not be permitted on the coach . |
| 24 | In the RAF 's first attack on the runway at Port Stanley , carried out by a Vulcan V-bomber which flew from Ascension Island , only one of the 21 bombs dropped hit the runway . |
| 25 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 26 | There were not enough , however , to stop them being blitzed in the final by a Warblers side whose quaint victory song underlined a cutting edge . |
| 27 | Such an assessment is required by an EC directive which has the force of law in Britain . |
| 28 | Edwin Muir 's One Foot in Eden ( 1956 ) is a last collection of poems by an Orkney poet whose passion for ancient myth was an expression of something deeper still — a profound distrust of the urban , the rootless and the industrial — and he repeatedly glimpsed , with a painful sense of loss , a paradise beyond grey modernity : |
| 29 | The sofas and chairs were deep and soft enough to fall asleep in , a fireplace was topped by an Adam mantel which Hugo had had flown out from England and everywhere there were fresh flowers — long stemmed hothouse roses , orchids flown in from Singapore , daffodils and narcissi and heavy perfumed hyacinths . |
| 30 | For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton . |